Summer Guide: Fun in the Sun
Throw on the board shorts, bust out the grills and lather on the sunscreen because it's getting to be our favorite season of the year - that's right, it's summer! Summer is a time to be lazy in the sun, meet new people and party like its 1999 all over again.
Below are some summer activities and tips to start your summer off right: Pool Parties If you ask any college student or self respecting young adult, pool parties are the staples of any summer.
It's a time where you can escape the realities of everyday life and soak up some rays while you're at it.
When the weather is right, follow these tips: Make a day playlist: You need some island inspired tunes when you're out on the roof of your apartment complex at 9am trying to convince your best friend that you guys should pack up everything and live in Nicaragua for the next 6 months.
You're going to want make a mix of some Bob Marley, Rebelution, The Expendables, Jimmy Buffett or anything with steel drums in it...
Anything mellow! Pack Light: Especially if you're going to a pool party.
Usually I just leave my phone in the car and just bring a credit card and my ID.
Nothing sucks more than getting thrown into a pool with your new iPhone in your board shorts.
Stay hydrated: I know this is a pretty lame tip, but you have no idea how much the sun take it out of you...
fisting your bottle of water is acceptable during the day! Don't forget the sunscreen: When you're as white as us, you'll need it.
Theme Parks Roller coasters, shows, and themed food.
Where do we sign up? There are a couple negatives with theme parks, huge crowds, long walking, and heavy on the wallet, but if you can see through that then it can make for a great day trip.
Most theme parks sell quality food to choose from, take advantage of it.
Theme parks seem to be much more fun if you go with a large group of people or family.
Join a local dodgeball, flag football, or kickball league You can join any local dodgeball, kickball, or flag football league for around $35.
This will turn out to be an excellent summer investment.
These are adult leagues and are insanely fun to play in.
After every game there is always an afterparty at the local spot who sponsors the league.
This is a guaranteed crazy night, from eating contents to the women and men in the league looking to mingle and meet new people.
You can just Google Waar or waka, those are two organizations that we know of that will organize these leagues in your city.
Don't worry about being too old or too young either, the age bracket ranges from early 20's to late 30's.
What are you waiting for?! Concerts Google your favorite band, find out when they're playing near you and buy the tickets! Concerts always turn out to be all day events.
Get everyone together and pack in the SUV and get to the lots early to tailgate until the concert starts; don't forget your portable table for cooking! If your venue has grass seats, this is usually where the party crowd will be located and your bound to see anything.
Block Parties There are plenty of cities all across the states that pay for and provide city block parties.
They will either host it in a city park or have the local police cut off a city block.
Once everything is roped off they will roll out the food vendors.
Not too long after that you'll be sure to hear a couple live bands.
These block parties usually start in the afternoon and go way into the late night.
Even if the city shuts down the block party venue, people will hang around late.
Play bags (cornhole) Bags (also known as cornhole in the Midwest) is a great way to kill time.
It's more-or-less like playing horse shoes, but the object is to throw bean bags inside a hole in a wooden platform instead.
To learn how to create your own bags setup Go Tubing (floating) What's better than floating down a lazy river with a tube?...
The answer is nothing.
This is definitely one of my favorite day activities.
Depending on where you live, this is the most relaxing way to spend a summer day with a group of buddies.
Below is what you would need: Shallow, slow moving river / large creek Flip Flops (don't rip your feet up on those rocks) Inflatable Tube (the inflatable tire tubes work best usually) Cooler (and bring another tube to place it in) Twine / Rope Lots of sunscreen Created a twine net in the bottom of your cooler tube, place the cooler in it and tie that tube to your tube.
Have someone drop you off a few miles up the river and spend the afternoon slowlyfloating down the river.
Find a Beach Sandbar Beach Sandbars can be legendary.
If you're lucky enough to live near a beach, then an absolute must is to search out and find a sandbar.
A sandbar is piece of ocean floor that is higher then the rest of the ocean bottom around it, sort of creating a mini island effect.
Once you've located a sandbar, ride out on your boat and a good sound system and get wild.
We have some wild stories from the sandbar and you can too, just don't miss the boat home.
Go Camping Like tubing, camping is another thing way to incorporate my two favorite past times;fishing and the outdoors.
Besides the obvious essentials (i.
e.
tents / bug spray), here are some of the additional items you'll need: Twine / Rope A grill (if not provided at the campground) Playing cards Radio
Below are some summer activities and tips to start your summer off right: Pool Parties If you ask any college student or self respecting young adult, pool parties are the staples of any summer.
It's a time where you can escape the realities of everyday life and soak up some rays while you're at it.
When the weather is right, follow these tips: Make a day playlist: You need some island inspired tunes when you're out on the roof of your apartment complex at 9am trying to convince your best friend that you guys should pack up everything and live in Nicaragua for the next 6 months.
You're going to want make a mix of some Bob Marley, Rebelution, The Expendables, Jimmy Buffett or anything with steel drums in it...
Anything mellow! Pack Light: Especially if you're going to a pool party.
Usually I just leave my phone in the car and just bring a credit card and my ID.
Nothing sucks more than getting thrown into a pool with your new iPhone in your board shorts.
Stay hydrated: I know this is a pretty lame tip, but you have no idea how much the sun take it out of you...
fisting your bottle of water is acceptable during the day! Don't forget the sunscreen: When you're as white as us, you'll need it.
Theme Parks Roller coasters, shows, and themed food.
Where do we sign up? There are a couple negatives with theme parks, huge crowds, long walking, and heavy on the wallet, but if you can see through that then it can make for a great day trip.
Most theme parks sell quality food to choose from, take advantage of it.
Theme parks seem to be much more fun if you go with a large group of people or family.
Join a local dodgeball, flag football, or kickball league You can join any local dodgeball, kickball, or flag football league for around $35.
This will turn out to be an excellent summer investment.
These are adult leagues and are insanely fun to play in.
After every game there is always an afterparty at the local spot who sponsors the league.
This is a guaranteed crazy night, from eating contents to the women and men in the league looking to mingle and meet new people.
You can just Google Waar or waka, those are two organizations that we know of that will organize these leagues in your city.
Don't worry about being too old or too young either, the age bracket ranges from early 20's to late 30's.
What are you waiting for?! Concerts Google your favorite band, find out when they're playing near you and buy the tickets! Concerts always turn out to be all day events.
Get everyone together and pack in the SUV and get to the lots early to tailgate until the concert starts; don't forget your portable table for cooking! If your venue has grass seats, this is usually where the party crowd will be located and your bound to see anything.
Block Parties There are plenty of cities all across the states that pay for and provide city block parties.
They will either host it in a city park or have the local police cut off a city block.
Once everything is roped off they will roll out the food vendors.
Not too long after that you'll be sure to hear a couple live bands.
These block parties usually start in the afternoon and go way into the late night.
Even if the city shuts down the block party venue, people will hang around late.
Play bags (cornhole) Bags (also known as cornhole in the Midwest) is a great way to kill time.
It's more-or-less like playing horse shoes, but the object is to throw bean bags inside a hole in a wooden platform instead.
To learn how to create your own bags setup Go Tubing (floating) What's better than floating down a lazy river with a tube?...
The answer is nothing.
This is definitely one of my favorite day activities.
Depending on where you live, this is the most relaxing way to spend a summer day with a group of buddies.
Below is what you would need: Shallow, slow moving river / large creek Flip Flops (don't rip your feet up on those rocks) Inflatable Tube (the inflatable tire tubes work best usually) Cooler (and bring another tube to place it in) Twine / Rope Lots of sunscreen Created a twine net in the bottom of your cooler tube, place the cooler in it and tie that tube to your tube.
Have someone drop you off a few miles up the river and spend the afternoon slowlyfloating down the river.
Find a Beach Sandbar Beach Sandbars can be legendary.
If you're lucky enough to live near a beach, then an absolute must is to search out and find a sandbar.
A sandbar is piece of ocean floor that is higher then the rest of the ocean bottom around it, sort of creating a mini island effect.
Once you've located a sandbar, ride out on your boat and a good sound system and get wild.
We have some wild stories from the sandbar and you can too, just don't miss the boat home.
Go Camping Like tubing, camping is another thing way to incorporate my two favorite past times;fishing and the outdoors.
Besides the obvious essentials (i.
e.
tents / bug spray), here are some of the additional items you'll need: Twine / Rope A grill (if not provided at the campground) Playing cards Radio
Source...